I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
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I’m pretty certain that nothing happens to the blood cells if you blind!. There’s lots of reasons that people may lose their eyesight, but I think most of them have to do with the eye or the brain! Yashar will be able to answer with more authority!
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Hi patrickobrien,
Loss of sight can occur as a result of a lot of things. There are immune cells (white blood cells) that live inside your eye and take care of the house-keeping side of things.
Ultimately, if your eyes are still in one piece, the immune cells will still be doing their job in certain parts. So, if you’ve unfortunately lost your vision because your cornea is no longer clear (you’d need to get a corneal transplant to fix this – as this is the only way), there will still be white blood cells in the front and the back of the eye. But they cannot help in restoring the function you’ve lost.
If you get a massive injury (or something else), where your eyes perforate (it’s not a pretty picture – i suggest you don’t look it up!), then the cells will in fact be lost along with the eye.
So in summary, Hannah is right. Nothing happens to the cells. They are still there “protecting” you. It’s just that they cannot fix the damage that’s already done.
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